New Home for Uncle Hugo’s
Bookseller Don Blyly has announced on his GoFundMe page that beloved Minneapolis MN specialty store Uncle Hugo’s/Uncle Edgar’s has found a new location, and hopes to open later this year. 
We reached agreement on the price of the building that I wanted to buy for the new Uncles location and I passed along the earnest money check to my real estate agent midweek and he passed it along to the title company. So the deal will go through unless something totally unexpected happens before closing. Closing is tentatively scheduled for March 24, and I hope that contractors will be able to start working on the building around the beginning of April and I hope we can open sometime in June. (Of course, EVERYTHING has taken longer than I hoped since the fire, so no guarantees that this will work according to plans.)
The building I’m buying is about 2 miles east of the old location at 2716 E. 31st St, a block south of Lake St. and about 3 ½ blocks from the light rail station, so it is convenient for people who rely on public transit. It is about half a block from Moon Palace Books, and the Moon Palace people and I believe that having two bookstores with such different selections so close will do good things for both stores.
The old location burned down in 2020, and fans have raised over $190,000 to help the owner rebuild.
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